This play, it farts, it licks, it spits. Cheek by Jowl’s hugely successful Ubu Roi returns to the Barbican in all its decadence-smashing scrutiny. An adolescent boy with a camera pans over dead meat and the extreme close-up is projected on the crème walls of a pristine dining room. A middle-aged couple swoops on stage […]
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The Roof at Lift 2014
Someday you will die. And you can’t escape. So, you go out and find stuff. You attach meaning to the stuff. You keep the stuff. You need more stuff. You meet people. You get to know them. They’re weird. You like them. You give them your stuff or share it with them. You have a […]
Handbagged at the Vaudeville
“Mrs Thatcher has got eyes like a psychotic killer, but a voice like a gentle person. It is a bit confusing.” This could have been a line uttered by one of the characters in Moira Buffini’s new play but it’s actually taken from Adrian Mole’s Secret Diary. It is fitting to quote Adrian today not […]
Mozart Undone at the Barbican
Quite what they were expecting when attending a theatre-concert based on Mozart, the audience at the Barbican didn’t seem to know. There was promise to take the ennui out of a concert experience and add some visual spice to it. The delivery on that promise turned out to be a little more daring than simply […]